Umbay Nagamon (Come and Sing)

Umbay Nagamon is a multi-media workshop aimed at fostering meaningful conversations about reconciliation. This workshop is a collaborative effort facilitated by elders, knowledge keepers, and leaders from Mountain View School Division, with the support of BU CARES.

Virtual Reality and Indigenous Education

Currently, BU CARES is partnered with Myera Group, Rural Development Institute, and BU's Mini University (Mini U), exploring how educators can use VR to increase engagement with traditional Indigenous knowledges.

Together with the Indigenous Peoples’ Centre at BU, we are looking at what belonging and identity mean to students at BU.

Celebrating the Inspiring Lives of Indigenous Educators

The PENT program at Brandon University recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. This project uses semi-structured interviews to enable participants to tell their stories of their experiences in education. A unique feature of this project involves the connection of present PENT students to the participants. An elective research course was designed specifically for current PENT students, and as part of their course requirements, they became the interviewers in the project. Stories of the participants will be constructed in the publication and dissemination of the interviews of all the participants. As education faculties build on their capacity to include Indigenous perspectives within their curricula, the data from this research project will be used to address growth and improvements in the PENT Program at Brandon University. Most importantly, this project celebrates the accomplishments of PENT graduates.